This is about the help that you need, most days, to monitor your condition and to manage your medication or home-based-therapy.
And to do these things:
- safely,
- in a reasonable time (no more than twice as long as a person without your disability would take)
- whenever you need to through the day and night
- without too much pain, fatigue, dizziness, confusion, need for recovery
It relates only to things that have been prescribed or recommended by a doctor or another regulated health professional.
The Questions:
Answer any of the following questions that apply to you. This will tell the decision maker everything that they need to know:
Aids: What things do you use to manage your medication and therapy?
Explain some aids you need, and how you use them?
Prompting: To monitor your condition, or to manage your medication or therapy, would you usually need someone to prompt, you, remind you, encourage you, or explain things to you? If so, which and why?
Physical Help: To monitor your condition, or to manage your medication or therapy, would you usually need another person to physically help you? If so, what help and why?
Safety: Would you usually need someone with you all the time that you are dealing with your medication/therapy to keep you safe? If so, why?
Therapy: If you need help with therapy, how long do you need this for each week?
Can’t do it: Is it true that even with all the help that you have described above, you:
- still can’t manage your medication/therapy safely?
- still can’t manage your medication/therapy in a reasonable time?
- can’t manage your medication/therapy at all?
Download these questions in a word file
Example – Henry
Aids:
My pharmacist puts all the pills I have to take into a blister pack for me.
Prompting:
Even with the blister-pack, I always need reminding and prompting to manage my medication. My memory and concentration has been affected by my illness and so my wife Helen gets me to check the blister pack on each occasion that I should take medication to make sure that I have done so.